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Oct 1, 2026
JohnCORRESPONDENT
In national news, the appeal in the Luxembourg Bomberley Abyss Affair will open on 27 October.
JohnCORRESPONDENT
The case involves four former senior Gendarmerie officials accused of making false statements during the 2013-14 bombings trial.
JohnCORRESPONDENT
Both the prosecution and the sole convicted official, Pierre Roland, are appealing the initial first-instance rulings.
JohnCORRESPONDENT
Five Luxembourg youth parties, notably excluding the far-right ADR Youth Wing, have formed an alliance to demand urgent government and municipal action on the housing crisis.
Zia YoussefGUEST
And if your question, if the next question is, well, what if the French do X, Y, or Z, then you'd have to define what X, Y, or Z is.
Zia YoussefGUEST
If X, Y, or Z involves using force, involves the Gendarmerie or the French Navy trying to push these vessels back into the channel, That is a war crime.
Zia YoussefGUEST
That is a crime against humanity.
Zia YoussefGUEST
I do not believe...
Delia D'AmbraHOST
It's important to note for context, in France, there's a military force that enforces the law and upholds the same duties as a police officer or deputy would, like in the United States.
Delia D'AmbraHOST
They refer to this force as the Gendarmerie.
Delia D'AmbraHOST
The Baligants had a lot of questions for French investigators because, just like Mihaela, they did not think Xavier had died by suicide, and they were right.
Delia D'AmbraHOST
Turns out, the first responding officials with the Gendarmerie who'd responded to the crime scene had been working the investigation as a homicide the entire time.
Delia D'AmbraHOST
Somehow, though, there had been a terrible miscommunication between them and the Belgian police, which resulted in Xavier's manner of death being misreported to his family.
Delia D'AmbraHOST
When that was all finally straightened out, though, officials with Nancy's deputy prosecutor and members of their Gendarmerie office told the Baligants what they could.
Delia D'AmbraHOST
According to the coverage, around 2:00 in the morning on the 19th, a patrolman who worked for the highway company was picking up trash at another rest area across the highway from the Malvaud rest stop.
Delia D'AmbraHOST
When he heard what he suspected were at least five gunshots, he reported the sounds to his counterparts and was instructed to investigate the source himself.
Morgan SaignesHOST
At least it is for me.
Morgan SaignesHOST
So I would say it was really important for me in the first place because I was also working at the Gendarmerie and I was not happy with this.
Morgan SaignesHOST
And, you know, it was also a way for me...
Morgan SaignesHOST
To get away from that life that was like really stressful for me back in the day.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
And apart from the facilities illustrated in figure 4.3, There may also be independent networks for the exclusive use of the security forces.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
The French Gendarmerie has a system of regional links which bypasses the public telephone and cable wires, and even in smaller countries such as Ghana, the police force has long had a fully independent system.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
In the United States, there is no national police, nor a national police network as such, but the Department of Defense maintains a nationwide and international system that is largely a single network in the world and connects every U.S. military installation with every other throughout the world.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
We cannot, of course, hope to seize every two-way set in the hands of the police and the military authorities, but we should neutralize by external or internal sabotage those facilities which can be identified and located.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
Paramilitary forces do not exist in the United Kingdom, where there are provisions for the army to act in support of the civil power, or in the United States, where the part-time soldiers of each state's National Guard can be called out instead, but such forces are extensively employed in many other countries.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
In France, for example, there is a civilian police force, the Police Nationale, but there is also a paramilitary force, the Gendarmerie, Gendarmerie, that normally acts as the rural police.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
The Gendarmerie is controlled by the Ministry of Defense, and its officers are integrated in the ranks of the armed forces.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
Its members receive light infantry training as well as police training.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
It numbers about ninety thousand men and women and is organized into departmental forces that are scattered in small groups all over the countryside, as well as mobile groups concentrated in large units, legions.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
The m- the mobile gendarmerie live in military-type barracks and are equipped with submachine guns and heavier infantry weapons.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
Their armored cars, thirteen-ton wheeled vehicles with forty-millimeter armor, can only be stopped with standard anti-tank weaponry.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
Officially, the Gendarmerie, unlike the other two police forces, has no intelligence service, but during the Algerian War, a se- a security section was set up, and as bureaucratic organizations often do, has survived the demise of its original function.
Patrick ChristysCORRESPONDENT
And if we look at this and pan to my left, there's another load of them waiting to go and get on another boat.
Patrick ChristysCORRESPONDENT
And there's a Gendarmerie man there just shining a torch on them and saying hello.
Patrick ChristysCORRESPONDENT
Let's go back here.
Patrick ChristysCORRESPONDENT
Look at the size of that boat.
Tommy SalmonsHOST
Second, scattered throughout the towns and the countryside were small detachments of gendarmerie.
Tommy SalmonsHOST
Finally, three battalions of order police were stationed in the Lublin district.
Tommy SalmonsHOST
The security police branches, along with the Schutzpolize and Gendarmerie units, provided small numbers of policemen who knew the local conditions.
Tommy SalmonsHOST
But the three-order police battalions, totaling 1,500 men, represented the single largest policeman power pool Globoknik could draw on.
Tommy SalmonsHOST
Clearly, they were indispensable, but still not sufficient to meet his needs.
Tommy SalmonsHOST
Second, scattered throughout the towns and the countryside were small detachments of gendarmerie.
Tommy SalmonsHOST
Finally, three battalions of order police were stationed in the Lublin district.
Tommy SalmonsHOST
The security police branches, along with the Schutzpolize and Gendarmerie units, provided small numbers of policemen who knew the local conditions.
Tommy SalmonsHOST
But the three-order police battalions, totaling 1,500 men, represented the single largest policeman power pool Globoknik could draw on.
Tommy SalmonsHOST
Clearly, they were indispensable, but still not sufficient to meet his needs.
Matt TonesHOST
Its work includes collecting, analyzing, and archiving witness accounts concerning unidentified aerospace phenomena and informing the public.
Matt TonesHOST
Its investigations can involve cooperation with the French Gendarmerie, police, and military organizations, as well as scientific bodies.
Matt TonesHOST
One of the most significant Relationships is with France's air operations structure.
Matt TonesHOST
Guy Penn has described an agreement with the French defense organization CNOA that gives investigators access to radar traces in relevant cases.
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Matt TonesHOST
It would be 12 years before CNES created it.
Matt TonesHOST
The original investigation therefore predates the modern French UAP organization.
Matt TonesHOST
The case entered the later French archival system through material collected by earlier investigators, including the Gendarmerie.
Matt TonesHOST
That distinction matters because it would be inaccurate to say that GPAN investigated the Valençol incident at the time it happened because it didn't.
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